Ladies, mark you calendar for the Women’s Conference on April 24, 2010 at Metropolitan Baptist Church from 8:30a.m.-2:00 p.m. with brunch at 11a.m. Alpa Goombi will be our keynote speaker and Barbara Roe will be our worship leader. We have new exciting workshops this year:
Teaching children about missions
Parenting and Grand parenting
Dealing with Grief and [...]
As I have mentioned before, an intricate part of the Set Free ministry is to have a discipleship “ranch” to take people to after they come in off the street. They would stay there sixty plus days. Property needs to be a good distance from town, but close enough for churches to help with Bible [...]
The Christian faith is all about relationships: the relationship between a holy God and sinful man; the relationship between brothers and sisters in Christ; and, the relationships we attempt to build between ourselves and the lost world around us. Within this context, the body of Christ functions – recognizing that God’s design is for community, [...]
It is time to mark your calendars and make plans to participate in the 2010 River Fest outreach. Our outreach will be from May 13th to 15th. We will have street evangelists here to work with you and to help train our church members.
If you would like to learn the basic tools to share Christ with Spanish speaking people, Abraham Arevalo our Hispanic Church Planter Strategist will be teaching a 12 session class every Tuesday beginning on January 19th at HOKSBA. It will be from 7-8:30pm. Please call the HOK office to register for the class. The cost [...]
Midway Baptist Church has recently entered into a partnership with Church Communication Network (CCN) for the purpose of providing training for church leadership via live satellite simulcasts at Midway Baptist Church. Area churches are invited to attend events.
Boundaries – This one-day seminar with Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend will show you how to [...]
During the holiday season our priorities become mixed. With the hustle and bustle of Thanksgiving, Christmas, and the New Year there’s also a lot of opportunities to serve. Let us remember the needs of our nation and join together in 40 days of prayer for Spiritual awakening. We have a good number of the 40 [...]
This next year promises to be a financially challenging one for many of our families. Have you considered a local mission trip to avoid travel and motel costs?
Christmas time is an especially great time to reach the detention kids for Christ. Your gifts to the Juveniles through the prison ministries fund have provided Bibles and materials for the youth all year. This year one of our churches took on the project to put together a Christmas box for every youth at the [...]
International Commission is an organization that works in partnership with IMB. They are planning a trip to Jamaica, November 5-14, 2010. They will be working with 43 churches in leading a crusade. They need 60 people to join them. They will need people who can assist them in preaching and/or home and school visits. If [...]
Immanuel Baptist Church, located at 1415 S. Topeka in Wichita, is celebrating 100 years of service to the Wichita community.
Almost a century ago, on February 14, 1910, Immanuel began as a mission of First Baptist Church, Wichita, meeting in a store building at 1427 S. Lawrence Avenue (now Broadway). By August of 1916, the mission [...]
On October 24th we had a chili cook-off at Metropolitan Baptist Church. Pat Dominguez was the big winner of a new grill donated by Fat Ernie’s Restaurant. We had a Christmas dinner on December 25th at Riverview Baptist Church. We helped 250 people in the past 3 months with food and clothing and have given [...]
Our Good Neighbor Centers are still doing a great job serving the needy and hurting in our community. Our GNC’s are in need of funds and food to meet the great needs out there. The needs in Wichita are continually growing and all of our centers need our assistance. At 16 cents per pound, we [...]
That was the theme of our Heart of Kansas Southern Baptist Associational Annual Meeting in 2009. As we come to the end of 2009, how would that question be answered?
Kathryn Graves is now a reporter with the Examiner.com newspaper. She is the Wichita Christian Examiner and will be covering events within the Christian community in the Wichita area. If your church has an upcoming event that would make a good news story, please e-mail her– she’d love to feature Southern Baptist churches. Contact Kathryn [...]
By the time you get this newsletter we will have returned from the Rose Bowl parade outreach. This year we are looking to take six men from HOKSBA and 14 from another church who is partnering with us.
The next trip will be from February 11-14, 2010. We will leave Wichita early Thursday morning and drive [...]
The Evangelism training is going great. I just finished several – 8 week sessions at our churches. The 6-8 week session is a combination between “Share Jesus Without Fear” and the “Evangecube”. I would love to come to your church to help train your people on evangelism and would be happy to schedule time to [...]
“For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world. The world is passing away, and the lusts of it; but the one who does the will of God lives forever.” I John [...]
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